Debian Jesse is going to have Gnome3 as the default desktop.
The desktop re-qualification page, used to help choose which desktop will be default, has in the Jesse version a weight for systemd integration, and of course only Gnome3 does it (at least for now). This will surely make the systemd/gnome3 fanbase happy, but possibly will make others unhappy, as it [may] be seen as another step towards mono-culture, until we soon end up with all distros being redhat clones.
(Score: 2) by morgauxo on Thursday September 25 2014, @01:35PM
I guess I have only ever ran the barebones installer then. I was unaware there was a straight Debian installer that installed a whole desktop.
"not making it mandatory for people who want to customize"
Of course not. You can go away from the defaults in any Linux distribution.